WEEKLY DIGEST 108| 31 MAY 2024
This week, 8 eats!
Last week was a big week of eating, with a grand total of 8 eats. Though, 3 of them were at Cambridge International Food Court and 2 of them were inside of Coventry Village. Anyway, it's Thursday, the 30th, 12:15 am and I'm keen to smash this out and wind down. Let's go!
This long weekend we have no planned eats, so we'll see where we end up!
Late week we ate:
Nieuw Ruin
Lalla Rookh
Malaysian Hawker
De Honey
Oishii Japanese Food
Uncle Lam
Layerz Patisserie
Katzu Katzu
Visit count
Note travel related eats haven't been added in yet. There will be a handful to add from Singapore and we'll add a select few from Japan.
As of 31 May 2024:
First time visits: Oishii Japanese Food & Layerz Patisserie (2)
Revisits: Lalla Rookh, De Honey, Malaysian Hawker, Uncle Lam, Katzu Katzu & Nieuw Ruin (6)
Total first time visits: 16+2=18
Total revisits: 39+6=45
Total visits this year: 18+45=63
ICYMI 📱
If you have any new fantastic food finds, we'd love for you to let us know via DM or email. If you have different opinions to us on food, that's fine - let us know too! We love to chat all things food.
Eddy & Paige
The Best Thing We Ate ⭐️
Nieuw Ruin
The best thing we ate was probably the Goldband ballotine at Nieuw Ruin. Our friend, Chef Stefan heads up the kitchen there and he kindly sent a couple treats throughout the night. Thank you for the hospitality, chef! 🙇♂️
The devilled crab butter and lobster oil paired beautifully with the Goldband snapper. It also reminded us of Nobu's shiitake truffle butter as well. Flavours were delicate and allowed for the quality of the Goldband snapper to be showcased.
I'm not usually a terrine person - probably cause of the soft textures, but I did quite enjoy the pate en croute! Most probably cause of the texture afforded by the the hazelnut and crust. It paired wonderfully with.. whatever the chilli pepper on the side was too.
What We Ate 🍴
Lalla Rookh
I'm lucky enough to work a role where I spend most of my time WFH. But last Thursday was different and involved me going out to the city. We had a team lunch and food is usually a good enough reason for me to trek out to the city 🤣 (ok, I had another errand in the city that I wanted to run as well).
Last time I dined at Lalla Rook probably was years ago in 2018 or 2019, during the early Pekopeko days. My lunch order was their Rookh's calzone and added pork sausage (+$9). At $39, the price is a little eye watering, so it's probably not a combo I'd order again. The calzone itself was fine, not bad at all, but not amazing. I may have food coma'd hard afterwards..
Malaysian Hawker
We had no idea what to eat on Friday night, so we trekked up to Cambridge International Food Court for some variety (A.K.A. Spencer Village of the north). Friday night's dinner was a three dish affair - where we started with Malaysian Hawker, then Oishii Japanese Food and ended with De Honey Satay.
A place we usually frequent here is Malaysian Hawker for their fried keow teow.
And wow. Google Reviews for this place were harsh. Paige and I have gotten the fried keow teow from Malaysian Hawker a handful of times. And we've enjoyed it every time. This time included. Good wok hei. Trust your tongue kids - not a random stranger on the internet (myself included 🤣😅).
Oishii Japanese Food
A place my barber's recommended is Oishii Japanese Food for their skewers. Our favourite was their chicken skin skewers which were priced at $1.5 a pop and seemed pretty reasonable for the price. I probably would've preferred a slightly more sweet savoury tare on the skewers, but overall, the skewers weren't bad!
De Honey Satay
Last up we have De Honey Satay. Our friends here still grill up probably our favourite satay here in Perth!
If you haven't been, we highly recommend you check out one of their branches (Morley, Floreat and Gosnells).
Read more about De Honey Satay in our article.
Eddy Pekopeko.eats
Uncle Lam
On Saturday, we were up NOR in Morley to visit my brother, @andyquanmusic who's just welcomed a new addition to his family 👶. Before dropping into visit, we swung by Uncle Lam.
Here's an old article on Uncle Lam!
Eddy Pekopeko.eats
Layerz Patisserie
We also tried out Layerz Patisserie for the first time as well while at Coventry. Head over to Instagram to see Paige's writing on it. TL;DR, their almond croissant and matcha azuki croissants were yum! Photographed in our kitchen, with assistance from IKEA under cabinet LEDs 👌.
Katzu Katzu
Rounding up the week we have tonkatsu from Katzu Katzu. Again - a friend and I were in Vic Park and had no idea what to eat. So we dropped by Katzu Katzu. I was also pretty curious to see if the katsu had changed since our first visit.
And change it did. I enjoyed my tonkatsu a lot more than our first visit here a couple months back. The tonkatsu itself had a nice balance of fat to leanness. If I had to nitpick, the tonkatsu was a cut a little thinner than I would've liked (usually pieces are a chonkier).
Given the better tonkatsu this time around, we'll definitely be back another time to check for consistency. I do also hope they bring back their mega thick tonkatsu too!
Alrighty, that's it for this week. 12:41 am. I usually let my writing "marinate" and so I'll do a final review the night after (so tonight) before scheduling this to send out at 5 pm on Friday.
Catch you next week!
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